Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - Jim
Aruba was a tremendous success and we all feel proud about it. You played, you had joy, some tears when you were busted, you had insuperable parties, you shared with not only excellent co-workers, but also great people that went out there to be your Hosts. I guess Aruba madness is somehow still inside all of you. Well, let´s take a break from Aruba.
As probably many of you remember, in the past weeks we ran some satellites for the Poker Hispano Tour – Costa Rica, which was played from October 17th through the 25th. I´m pretty sure I mentioned it on my previous blog.
I truly feel this is a very interesting approach to expand Poker in Latin America where a considerable amount of players are thirsty to take their shot at live events. It consisted in a week full of exciting tournaments.
I was expecting to watch the Final Table of the PHT Main Event on Saturday, as well as play the closing event on Sunday 25th. Unfortunately my 95 yr old grandpa had to get into the hospital on Saturday, so I spent that night and most of Sunday and Monday taking care of him. The good, is that he is very healthy now, and even though I wasn´t able to watch nor play at the PHT, I found out something very interesting.
Lately, I haven’t been playing a lot of poker, I´m into Poker whenever I come to work but schoolwork has used up my days off. While I was taking care of my old man, I had plenty of time to read at the moments that he was taking a nap.
Obviously I brought with me a couple of poker books (in my undisciplined attempt to improve my game) however it was a very short paragraph I read that reminded me a key of being successful at poker.
Use a GOOD Bankroll Strategy! Sometimes I speak with players complaining about bad beats, terrible luck… you know what I´m talking about… then I take a look at their accounts and I find out that they are investing 50% or even 100% of their BR in a single game. No matter how tight you play, sooner or later the Bad Beats will show up, at least once in a session, the capricious Poker Gods, will send you a disgusting river card.
It´s up to you to combine your style of playing, with a protected Bankroll management strategy. You can find plenty of BR management strategies by browsing the web, the most important part is definitely how disciplined you are to keep yourself within the stakes you should play.
Anyway, I´m sure you guys know about this better than me, for those of you who hadn´t been taking it into consideration lately, I hope it refreshes your mind! J
Take care everyone!
Tags: Aruba, Costa Rica, Hispano, luck, madness, Strategy, success
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Saturday, June 6, 2009 - Z06FANATIC
So there’s roughly a week and a half left of the race – looking forward to it coming to an end but at the same time I can’t let up. I’m currently in 7th, trying to work my way up another spot or two. I got some stiff competition though, trying to battle AIRKID3 and DURZAAAA for position. Its been an easy race thus far in terms of things falling my way – I ran real well during this race so it made it much easier – had I ran real bad this would be very rough. I’m loving these races though and hopefully AP/UB offers more of these in the future – they really keep things interesting and allow everyone to make out well. I’ll post my final entry when the race ends – GL to all!
Tags: AP, loyalty, luck, Promotions, Strategy, ub, UB 500
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009 - Mia
The WSOP is just around the corner and for us who breath, dream and live poker the world stops and the biggest event of the year is waiting to unroll right before our eyes! With the 10 cent promo, the 50 Package WSOP giveaway and whatever other promo we can come up with to send you guys to Vegas we are expecting our family gathering there to be out of this world.
So far we have lots of customers that have won WSOP Packages with us and for those that decide to represent us we have super special activities and treats in store for them in Vegas. So if you are not one of these players, what are you waiting? Take 10 cents out of your budget and play the Steps. If you don’t want to start that low, you can buy into a higher Step for a bit more cash, and from there you can easily climb your way to the WSOP. Remember that Steps are SnGs so we have them available anytime, so check the game’s lobby and you will definitely find one that works for you.
Also, if you guys have not won a WSOP package with us but still will play in the event and want to be part of our community just let us know. We have so many great things planned for this gathering that you will never forget it!
Already won your package? Just sit next to your phone and expect any of us to reach you anytime. We just started confirming how many of you will be adventurous enough to join the exclusive list of players that will hit Vegas in the upcoming weeks, representing the UB Community. We want to hear your experiences, your strategies and of course your expectations. Believe me…there is a lot of information we want to share, and you definitely want to hear about it. Exclusive parties…a city that never sleeps…our brand new concierge services at your order…and obviously our team at your disposition! Dreaming is for free, no doubts about it! We are already picturing your UB t-shirts at the final table. It’s our 10th Anniversary what we are talking about here…it has to be a blast!
WSOP and Vegas, be ready because the UB family is on its way and we will rock this town!
Tags: Community, Party, Rai$e VIP Team, Strategy, UB Family, Vegas, WSOP
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